Donaldo Altamirano
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Biography
Donaldo Altamirano
Parada triumfal de un imperio postumo
Mixed Media on Paper
4’ x 9’
Education
- 1971 : Specialized courses on metal etching techniques. Coyaocán Art Centre, Mexico City, Mexico
- 1969-71 : Fine art studies (drawing, watercolour, modelling) at La Esmeralda, School of Painting and Sculpture. National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico
- 1968-69 : Advanced courses in drawing and painting, at the National School of Fine Arts of Managua, Nicaragua
Awards and Achievements
- 2007 : Selected by the Ortiz-Gurdián Foundation, to represent Nicaragua at the Drawing Biennale of Dominican Republic.
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2004 : Awarded a scholarship by the Municipality of Taipei, Taiwan, as an “artist in residence” for four months, at the Taipei Artist Village (Including intensive workshop on diverse etching and printmaking techniques, traditional and contemporary).
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1993 : Silvio Miranda National Drawing Prize, in the competition by the National Union of Fine Artists, with the work "Identity of Memory (at the moment of being run over by Oblivion)".
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1991 : National Drawing Prize, in the competition by the National Union of Fine Artists, with six works on board, entitled "Codex of the End of the Century".
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1991 : Honourable Mention at the competition from Nimehuatzin Foundation, with the work "The Vultures of Peace".
The work of Donaldo Altamirano is held in important private collections in Nicaragua, as well as various countries in Europe, Central America, North America, and South America.
Artist's Statement
Clues have demonstrated, or at least insinuated, that if we were to track the labyrinths crossed by the replication of DNA in the blood of my anonymous ancestors, we would arrive (somewhat exhausted) at archaic Sumerian cultures. In my compositions, some of the more recent or immediate socio-political references would seem obvious. As an impartial artist, I require a hard-fought balance both for visual art and for foggy literary concerns. I prefer to leave behind such fundamental processes of free association to the imperfections of the viewer’s imagination